British justice ended the Prosecutor’s Office against Kneecap rapper on Friday. Mo Chara, accused of “terrorist offensive” for wearing a Hezbollah flag during a concert in 2024.
Due to a technical error when the position of the singer, of his real name, Liam O’Hanna (or Liam Og or Hannaidh in Gaelic), “the procedure began illegally and, therefore, is zero,” said Woolwich’s criminal court, excited tires of joy among rapper supporters.
The rapper of the Northern Ireland trio appeared once again on Friday, September 26 in London on Friday, for wearing a Hezbollah flag during a concert in November 2024. He was accused of “terrorist offensive.”
Since the accusation of the singer last May, the group, which claims aloud to the support of the Palestinian cause, has seen its notoriety, but has also undergone several concert cancellations in Germany or Austria.
Kneecap members were also prevented from going to Hungary, where they had to act at the Sziget festival, forbidden to start Canada and have given up a tour in the United States.
A “witch hunt”
The trio had asked his fans to come and support Mo Chara in numbers on Friday morning in front of the Westminster court, in downtown London, denouncing a “witch hunt.”
But the police prohibited the presence of their supporters in the esplanade, where hundreds of people had met with Irish flags and music, the previous times, Kneecap announced on Instagram, describing this decision as “average.”
The group has always denied any support for Hezbollah, denouncing a “political” decision.
“(Israeli President) Isaac Herzog, a man whose United Nations says he is a genocide accomplice, is welcome to drink tea in Downing Street last week. Meanwhile, Mo Chara, who denounces genocides worldwide, is accused of being a terrorist,” Kneecap wrote at the beginning of his social networks.
Liam OG or Hannaidh-His His in Gaelic was accused on May 21 for having covered himself with a flag of the Libanese Islamist pro-sylamist movement, a terrorist classified in the United Kingdom, during a group concert in London on November 21, 2024.
He is also criticized for shouted “Go to Hamas! Go to Hezbollah!”
During a first hearing in June, rapper’s lawyers said their accusation had taken place outside the legal deadline of six months. It was this element that had been discussed mainly during a second audience at the end of August.
Concert cancellations
In an interview awarded at the beginning of September to the AFP, Mo Chara had considered the anti -terrorist research that attacks her.
A daring provocaters of their fans, dangerous extremists for their detractors, group members have attracted the attention of media and politics in recent months to the United Kingdom.
In question: virulent statements against Israel and the war in the Gaza Strip. If some of its concerts have been canceled in recent months, Kneecap occurred at the end of August at the Rock In Sena Festival, in the Paris suburbs already ends during the Glastonbury Festival, in southwest England.
The trio of Ireland of the North, which caught the attention for the first time by rapping in the Irish domination and denouncing the British in Northern Ireland, came to the notoriety in 2024 with his album “Fine Art” and an excessive docu fiction, “Kneecap”, granted in particular at the Sundance Film Festival, in the United States.
Source: BFM TV
